Ditch trimmer



'D.21-, 1926. v 1,611,300 I J. WILLIAMS DITGH TRIMMER Filed Oct. 13. 1925 Ziama.

Patented, Dec. 21, 192 6.

'Joim wIILLIAMs or MEEKER, oorionano, ASSIGNOR'OF'FOUB-FIFTHS 'ro mormnnsou H. .rAYLoR, or MEEKER, COLORADO.

I BITCH TRIMMER.

Application filed )ct-ober l3, 1925. Serial I l'o.- 62 220.

This invention relates to improvementsin 'ditch trimmers.

In many parts of our country irrigation has to be resorted to in order to obtain good crops. In conducting the water from the main ditches and laterals, small ditches are used. The slides of these ditches soon be come covered with grass and weeds that droop over into the ditch and tends to obstruct the flow of water through the same.

.In the spring and whenever. else it is neces sary, the ditches must be cleaned and where there is a large amount of overhanging vegetat1on,it must be removed and this is usually accomplishedby means of a sharp spade.

The ditch is afterwards cleaned. The trim ming of ditches by means of a spade is slow and laborious work which is therefore often slighted with the result that'trouble is exduce a tool that can be drawn by horses, like n, a plow, and which will cut. and trim. the sides of the ditches in a satisfactory manner.

perienced during the irrigation period when there is very little time for remedying it.

It is the object of this invention to pro- My invention can be most clearly described and will be most readily. understood when reference is had to the acompanying drawing in which it has been illustrated and in which:

F 1g. 1 38 a 7 structed like an ordinary plow beam and has its rear end2-curved downwardly and forwardly 1n the manner shown 111' Fig. 1, a

' sharpened steel cutter blade 3 connects the forwardly projecting end of the curved part 3 with the upper portion of the beam 1 in.

the manner shown in Fig. 1. The cutter is preferably bent at Aland has two straight portions A and B. A handle 5 isconnected to the beam. A second handle? is connected to the lower end of the beam by means of bolts 8 and extends upwardly at an outwardly .inclined angle. The two handles have hand'grips 9 and are joinedtogether by means of rods 10 and 11.

front end of the beam 1 is a flat'bar 12 hav- 7 ter side elevation of my improved V trimmer looking in the direct on of arrow 1 Secured to the mg one end 13 bent rearwardly atan angle of ninety degrees and fastened to the beam by bolts or rivets'l i. The other end 15 is bent rearwardly at a greater angle than the end'13 and is connected tothe front end of the bar 16 by bolts or rivets 17. The rear end of bar 16 is fastened to the beam by means of a bo lt 18. An angle iron 19 is se cured to the frontside of the bar '12 by means of bolts 20 and has one flange provided with a plurality ofholes 21 to which the clevis 22 is attached: The clevis 22 is employed to connect'the ev'ener to-which the horses are hitched. alongthe bar 19, the proper hitch for the particular b may soon be determined.

In Fig. 3 I have shown one side 230ta ditch and have indicated at2 l the overhanging grass which is to be cut away. Thetrimmer is preferably held so that the cut- The dirt and rass trimmed awa falls into 3 cuts on alslant in the manner shown.

By moving the clevis i the ditch and is later removed therefrom,

thus producing a clean ditch with smooth sides. Thetool above describedis very simin the'old wayrequired a very muc'hlonger time to perform.

so ple and will do in a short time the work that a A'ditch trimmercomprisin in combinas 0 tion, a beam having its rear end curved downwardly andforwardly alonga gradubar extending fromthe lower end of the point where the upper end of the cutter is at tached to itan'd extending rearwardly 1n the ilane of the curved DOI'tlOll of the beam it second handle securedto the beam'near the al, substantially a'rcuate curve until the lower end extendsin aforward direction, a cutterbottom of the-curred portion and'extending upwardly and outwardly-at an angle with the first handle, each hand e having a hand grip portion, said hand grip portions being on or different levels when t-hebeam IS in vertical position whereby the beam will beheld in an 7 inclined position when the hand grip portions are at an equal height and means at the forward endof the plow for'attaching horses to the beam.

. lntestimony whereof I affix my signature.

Jenn WILLIAMS.- 

